While our first round for this challenge didn't take Hive by storm I'm still pleasantly pleased to see some quality submissions from it and get a recommendation for this round. I know these are really quite challenging images and was impressed by the two people who stepped up to that challenge.

@freepix (aka @chrislybear) brought us two submissions for cleaning which are well worth a look:

@freepix/cleaning-with-vacuum-cleaners
@freepix/cleaning-with-mop-dishwasher-and-sponge-stockphoto

Then @iodacasamia submitted some graphics depicting a dry climate:
^{but forgot to add the link in the comments of the challenge post leaving me having to use my brain and chase it down. 😉}

@iodacasamia/climate-change-hive-stock-images-engita

The great news is that we've already seen one of @iodacasamia's images in use on @ligayagardener's latest cli-fi installment, which is where I got the inspiration for the second image prompt.

Congrats to both of you, 15 and 10 Hive respectively has been sent your way.

For this week we have a suggestion from @steemflow which was also repeated in a chat room by @ryivhnn. Both noticed that a lot of people post about Crypto and suggested that for this round's theme. Thank you for the idea, this week steemflow will be a beneficiary of this post.

How it works

To start with the challenges will run every two weeks. Each round we will have a topic or two for our contributors to try their hand at. We invite everyone to give their feedback on any entries and the best one will win Hive. Meanwhile, we ask anyone who has been looking to use images to tell us what they are looking for in the comments on this post and these requests will be put forward as the challenge topics for future competitions, with the suggesting account added as a beneficiary of that challenge post. They will also be invited to judge any entries and pick their favourite submission. If they also choose to use a submission, then all the better.

We invite people to add an upvote to their favourite suggestions and this will play a part in which ones will be selected first for the next challenge.

This week's challenge topics will be:

1:

Crypto

The second word I'll keep similar to the theme from the last round:

2:

Climate

Rules

• No plagiarism (obviously).
• Think quality. Will someone want to use your image if it's blurry or badly laid out? Low quality posts will be muted in the search feature
• Make sure you're tagging your submissions correctly.
• Make sure your images fall within legal restrictions for stock images.
• Submit your entry links in a comment on this post, so we don't miss it.
• All images are accepted, not just photographs, as long as they are your own.

We have 20 Hive for the winning entry. All quality entries will be nominated for curation if they aren't already well rewarded. Votes will be given on all good suggestions for images, with the chosen suggestion/s added as a beneficiary on the next challenge post.

_{Camera image by @bantamuda.}